12.30 Registration, BT Convention Centre

14.00 Walking Tours

09.00 Chairman’s Introduction: Day 1

• Sir Neil Cossons, Former Chairman, English Heritage

• Conference Welcome

  Cllr Warren Bradley, Leader, Liverpool City Council

• Liverpool, City of Merchants

  Nigel Lee, Planning Manager, Liverpool City Council.
  What sets Liverpool apart? How can urban planning balance conservation with much needed regeneration?

• Distinct and Different

  Robert Lee, Chaddock Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Liverpool; Co-director of the Centre for Port and Maritime History
  Port cities have played an important role in the global process of urbanisation and are major drivers for population growth and national development, as the examples of Hong Kong, Mumbai, Shanghai and Singapore illustrate. What unique factors make port cities different from other types of urban communities both in Europe and elsewhere?

• A Tale of Six Cities

  Sir Bob Scott, International Director, Liverpool Culture Company
  Cities on the Edge - how six European Cities: Liverpool, Marseille, Naples, Gdañsk, Istanbul and Bremen are using culture to spur regeneration and investment to improve their place in the world.

• Lagos: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

  Professor Ayodeji Olukoju, University of Lagos
  Lagos has undergone rapid change. How have commercial and national interests shaped this port city? This talk focuses on issues relating to traditional and contemporary culture, waterfront management and the impact of development.

• Shock City

  John Belchem, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Liverpool
  Victorian port cities were renowned for transients, sojourners and settlers but to characterize them as dangerous and ‘edgy’ is a misperception and misrepresentation. This is certainly the case for Liverpool, the ‘shock city’ of post-industrial,
  post-colonial Britain.

• Popular Values

  Professor Eric van Hooydonk, University of Antwerp
  Explores the tension between commercial and leisure interests in the management and development of port cities and how these can co-exist to benefit all.

• Shanghai Story

  Professor Xia Shanchen, Jiaotong University (Shanghai)
  How do you balance rapid urban growth with retaining and enhancing the unique historic environment? Shanghai’s remarkable growth is increasingly viewed as a benchmark for world cities. Committee member of the
  Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CCPPCC).

• Heritage In Regeneration: Inspiration or Irrelevance?

  Dr Simon Thurley, Chief Executive, English Heritage
  Appreciation of the historic environment should inform planning in port cities, but in practice how influential is thorough understanding of historic character and significance in shaping proposals for change? This presentation will explore the relationship between the historic environment, planning regimes and new development. The theme of change and innovation will be developed through discussion of the concept of historic setting and context as an influence on planning and design in port cities.

Lunch

Day one workshops

Regeneration and planning

• A1 Liverpool’s World Heritage
  John Hinchliffe, World Heritage Officer, Liverpool City Council
  Can lessons learnt in Liverpool be applied to historic port cities around the world?
  Gain an understanding of the principles behind the Supplementary Planning Document for new development throughout the World Heritage Site.
• A2 Early Port Development
  Gustav Milne, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University College London
  This talk examines the nature of port development in Roman and medieval periods, its effect on modern layout, and its impact on current planning considerations.
• A3 Ports and Partnerships 
  Howard Green, PPP consultancy expert and former Professor of Urban Planning, Staffordshire University
  What are the benefits and challenges of public-private partnerships, are they the best or indeed the only way to succeed? Explore the role of private sector investment in public sector led regeneration projects like the re-development of the Port of Liverpool and Liverpool waterfront area.

Historic environment

• A4 Protecting the Past 
  Bob Hawkins, Heritage Protection Department, English Heritage
  Explore the tensions which arise when protection is mistaken for prevention.
  Can protective measures ever be fully reconciled with development and renewal?
• A5 Understanding the historic environment
  Colum Giles, Head of Urban Research, English Heritage 
  Louise O’Brien, Project Manager, Historic Environment of Liverpool Project, English Heritage
  Sarah-Jane Farr, Merseyside Archaeological Officer
  Paul Smith, Sous-direction des Etudes de la Documentation et de l’inventaire, Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication.
  Successful management of the historic environment depends on an awareness of its significance. Explore different approaches to research and discuss how research can be directed to meet a wide range of objectives in port regeneration, from raising public awareness to shaping the future.
• A6 Is Heritage a Business Opportunity?
  Abha Bahl and Brinda Gaitonde, architects and founders of Bombay Heritage Walks
  Find out how their passion for Mumbai and its multicultural history led them to establish an independent heritage based business and how they made the most from harnessing Mumbai's vibrant visitor economy.

Changing communities

• A7 A Cotton Port Restored - Savannah, Georgia
  Mark C McDonald, President and CEO, Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
  A brief history of Savannah, Georgia, a leading 19th century port; its economic decline and its remarkable community-led restoration.
• A8 Liverpool's Changing Fortunes
  Alfred Zack-Williams, Professor of Sociology, University of Central Lancashire
  From Gateway to Empire to City in Torment: the decline in fortune of a Once Great Port and the impact on race relations. President of the African Studies Association UK; British Academy Africa Panel Member.
• A9 Slavery and Emigration
  David Richardson, Professor of Economic History and Director,
  Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull
  Slavery has often been rooted in forced migration. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade is explored in comparative perspective.

09.30 Chairman's Welcome: Day 2

• Richard Meegan, Reader, European Institute for Urban Affairs (EIUA), Liverpool John Moore University
• Cultural Strategies In European Port Cities
  Franco Bianchini, Professor of Cultural Policy and Planning, Leeds Metropolitan University
  What contribution do cultural strategies make to urban regeneration? A comparative study of European port cities and the key issues and themes around the design, implementation, effectiveness and sustainability of cultural strategies.
• Caring for Port Cities
  Dr Ray Bondin, Expert advisor, former Assistant Secretary General to the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
  An outline of lessons learnt from the long-term conservation of the historic port of Valletta, Malta, and how can these be applied in other port cities.
• Tensions in Transformation
  Dr Niamh Moore, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin
  Can heritage and economic development complement rather than conflict with each other, or indeed is this desirable? This talk focuses on the maritime heritage of Dublin and other cities undergoing rapid transformation.
• Fundamental Principles
  Eddie Friel, Professor of Hospitality Training and Research, Niagara University
  American waterfront cities struggle to preserve their cultural heritage in the light of declining populations and the scars of post-industrialisation. The scale of poverty in urban regions such as New Orleans continues to reach levels that are an affront to any civilised society. We need to re-assert the fundamental principle that places are for people first and restoring communities demands more than just architectural restoration.
• Is All Tourism Beneficial?
  John McCarthy, Reader in Urban Studies, Heriot-Watt University
  Not all regeneration initiatives in port cities are beneficial. The advantages and disadvantages, impacts, costs and benefits that come from the expansion of tourism are discussed in the context of European cities.
• Culture as a Catalyst - Cities on the Edge
  Kris Donaldson, Director, Liverpool Culture Company;
  Sydney Olympic Games Organising Committee member Is culture a catalyst for tourism? Can it improve the quality of life and stimulate waterfront economic regeneration? Liverpool’s unique role as a port city has come to the fore through its status as 2008 European Capital of Culture.
• Plan the City With the Port
  Olivier Lemaire, General Manager, International Association of Cities and Ports, France
  How can ports and cities invent new ways of growing together? How can they meet the challenge of balancing the demands for economic growth alongside those of the natural and historic environments?
   

Day two workshops

Regeneration and planning

• B1 The Port Owner’s Perspective
  Lindsey Ashworth, Development Director, Peel Developments (UK) Ltd
  Explore the opportunities for regeneration from a port owner’s perspective; discuss the specific issues that long-term and large-scale regeneration has for waterfront sites. The Peel Group is the  Uk’s second largest port operator.
• B2 The Developer’s Perspective
  Steve Parry, Managing Director, Neptune Developments
  How can developers successfully operate within the constraints and opportunities particular to waterfront regeneration in historic environments? A case study on maximising the wider benefit of physical development through use of local labour and training initiatives.
• B3 Fit for Purpose?
  Dennis Rodwell, Urban Development Consultant
  Do planning systems fit the current needs of historic port cities? What are the key planning issues that affect port cities around the world? Participants will be invited to make short presentations on key issues and themes followed by an open discussion.
• B4 Re-animate
  David Geddes, International Tourism Consultant, Locum Consulting
  How can we make redundant docklands more attractive through successful regeneration strategies and sustainable models for tourism development?

Historic Environment

• B5 Re-gaining Gdañsk’s Water Spaces
  Lucyna Nyka, Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture,
  University of Technology, Gdañsk
  Explore how culture-led regeneration has been successfully used to re-brand and redevelop Gdañsk’s waterside areas and how the port’s heritage has been repositioned.
• B6 A Positive Image
  Dr René Borruey, Research Fellow,
  Marseille Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture
  A Marseille case study and critical appraisal of how port cities have created a positive image for themselves through revitalising and transforming waterfront spaces to become attractive parts of cities.

Changing communities

• B7 Changing Audiences
  Tony Tibbles, Director, Merseyside Maritime Museum
  Franz Loomijer, Director, Maritime Museum, Rotterdam
  Explore the way in which Maritime Museums have reacted to the dramatic changes in the nature of post-industrial port cities and the changing relationship between people, docks and the sea.
• B8 Creating Carnival
  Pax Nindi, Artistic Director of St Paul’s Carnival, Bristol; Vice President, World Carnival Commission
  Gain an overview of carnival and its value as a tool for cultural engagement, expression of diversity and the telling of multiple histories. Giles Agis, Executive Director, Brouhaha International A case study highlighting the four-year Liverpool Carnival project telling the story of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, concluding 2008.
• B9 Ports, Petticoats and Power
  Dr Sheryllynne Haggerty, University of Nottingham
  Investigate the lives of women and their work in the British-Atlantic (c.1750-1833). Themes include the effect of the wider economic situation, race, legal constraints and social and cultural issues.